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		By: LB		</title>
		<link>https://ounodesign.com/2011/02/20/edgewater-casino-vancouver/#comment-1775</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[LB]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 07:34:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://ounodesign.com/2011/02/20/edgewater-casino-vancouver/#comment-1774&quot;&gt;Elaine Carol&lt;/a&gt;.

Thanks Elaine. Bing&#039;s talk was superb. As an architect in Vancouver, though, he wasn&#039;t really able to comment on the architecture. And for other reasons the casino coalition isn&#039;t able to do that either - too many other fish to fry. That&#039;s why I wanted to deal with it here. The casino, when we defeat it, won&#039;t be defeated on architectural or design grounds but on the lack of public consultation, on the very fact that a majority of Vancouverites oppose it, and on issues of public health, crime and the failing economic model of gambling. Still, I want to make an example of this plan here because it&#039;s an emblem of the poor, developer-led design we are seeing across this city. This is one of the last pieces of prime downtown Vancouver real estate. It cries out for a landmark building by a proper architect, not a gambling hall by a commercial condo developer.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://ounodesign.com/2011/02/20/edgewater-casino-vancouver/#comment-1774">Elaine Carol</a>.</p>
<p>Thanks Elaine. Bing&#8217;s talk was superb. As an architect in Vancouver, though, he wasn&#8217;t really able to comment on the architecture. And for other reasons the casino coalition isn&#8217;t able to do that either &#8211; too many other fish to fry. That&#8217;s why I wanted to deal with it here. The casino, when we defeat it, won&#8217;t be defeated on architectural or design grounds but on the lack of public consultation, on the very fact that a majority of Vancouverites oppose it, and on issues of public health, crime and the failing economic model of gambling. Still, I want to make an example of this plan here because it&#8217;s an emblem of the poor, developer-led design we are seeing across this city. This is one of the last pieces of prime downtown Vancouver real estate. It cries out for a landmark building by a proper architect, not a gambling hall by a commercial condo developer.</p>
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		By: Elaine Carol		</title>
		<link>https://ounodesign.com/2011/02/20/edgewater-casino-vancouver/#comment-1774</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Elaine Carol]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 07:28:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIak4DGqRTA&#038;feature=player_embedded - Architect Bing Thom made a public presentation re: mega-casino when we began the second phase of the activism at the February 9 public forum at the Chinese Cultural Centre in Chinatown.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIak4DGqRTA&#038;feature=player_embedded" rel="nofollow ugc">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIak4DGqRTA&#038;feature=player_embedded</a> &#8211; Architect Bing Thom made a public presentation re: mega-casino when we began the second phase of the activism at the February 9 public forum at the Chinese Cultural Centre in Chinatown.</p>
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		By: RB		</title>
		<link>https://ounodesign.com/2011/02/20/edgewater-casino-vancouver/#comment-1773</link>

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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 06:41:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It&#039;s tragic that our home, one of the most geographically breathtaking places on earth, has been trashed beyond recognition by a non-stop onslaught of hideously ugly buildings and real estate vultures who could care less that people have to live here.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s tragic that our home, one of the most geographically breathtaking places on earth, has been trashed beyond recognition by a non-stop onslaught of hideously ugly buildings and real estate vultures who could care less that people have to live here.</p>
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		By: Todd		</title>
		<link>https://ounodesign.com/2011/02/20/edgewater-casino-vancouver/#comment-1772</link>

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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 18:34:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Crass and unwanted. I can&#039;t believe Vancouver is even considering this enormous mistake. It shouldn&#039;t be laughed out of town, the people trying to promote it should be exiled to Monster Island.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Crass and unwanted. I can&#8217;t believe Vancouver is even considering this enormous mistake. It shouldn&#8217;t be laughed out of town, the people trying to promote it should be exiled to Monster Island.</p>
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		By: LB		</title>
		<link>https://ounodesign.com/2011/02/20/edgewater-casino-vancouver/#comment-1771</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[LB]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 05:14:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#039;m glad to see someone else think &quot;80s&quot;! That was my first thought. Then &quot;mediocre.&quot; And this is not even counting the giant, street-unfriendly &quot;podium&quot; all around the base. If there weren&#039;t an archaic BC rule preventing BC architects from criticizing the work of other BC architects, this thing would have been laughed out of town.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m glad to see someone else think &#8220;80s&#8221;! That was my first thought. Then &#8220;mediocre.&#8221; And this is not even counting the giant, street-unfriendly &#8220;podium&#8221; all around the base. If there weren&#8217;t an archaic BC rule preventing BC architects from criticizing the work of other BC architects, this thing would have been laughed out of town.</p>
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		By: Erik		</title>
		<link>https://ounodesign.com/2011/02/20/edgewater-casino-vancouver/#comment-1770</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erik]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 12:06:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Things like this really sadden me. In Berlin where I used to live, Alexanderplatz, the modernist central square of former east berlin, recently got humongous mall in some sort of post-modernist-neo-mess-o&#039;-potamian style which might be the ugliest building I have ever seen (and with a logo straight out of graphic designers hell). At least in Stockholm, where I live now, nothing is being built at all, and when it is, it&#039;s just quiet mediocre buildings that &quot;blend in&quot;. I guess I preffer that over this thing, I mean seriously, talk about 80&#039;s revival.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Things like this really sadden me. In Berlin where I used to live, Alexanderplatz, the modernist central square of former east berlin, recently got humongous mall in some sort of post-modernist-neo-mess-o&#8217;-potamian style which might be the ugliest building I have ever seen (and with a logo straight out of graphic designers hell). At least in Stockholm, where I live now, nothing is being built at all, and when it is, it&#8217;s just quiet mediocre buildings that &#8220;blend in&#8221;. I guess I preffer that over this thing, I mean seriously, talk about 80&#8217;s revival.</p>
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		By: Elizabeth Currie		</title>
		<link>https://ounodesign.com/2011/02/20/edgewater-casino-vancouver/#comment-1769</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Currie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 01:40:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Travesty is too elevated an adjective. Crass might do just fine.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Travesty is too elevated an adjective. Crass might do just fine.</p>
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